Flipboard, Taptu and Pulse: Cutting through social media on the iPad and iPhone

Blogger Philip Sheldrake blogged recently about the latest entrant in a new breed of emerging services — social news aggregators.

Social news aggregators are services that use technology to curate, or collect info that specifically for you.

Flipboard is an iPad magazine just for you. It’s gorgeous and if you’ve never looked at social news aggregators, two seconds on this site will get you up to speed on what this is all about. Flipboard fills your personal iPad magazine with content people on your Twitter network are tweeting about.

Pulse is the same idea for iPhone, iPad and Android and iPad, but allows you to pull from sites with RSS feeds.

My Taptu for iPhone and Android is the newest entrant and allows you to get information from more sources.

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